Centenary Exhibition 
of the work of 
MATTHEW HARRIS JOUETT 


Supplemented by the work of 
GILBERT STUART, his Master 


and 


OLIVER FRAZER and 
JOHN GRIMES, 
his Pupils 


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Matthew Harris fouett 
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The old adage that some men are born great applies very 
forcibly to Mait Jouett, as he was known to his host of admiring 
friends. Coming as he did from a family which had signally 
distinguished itself over a long period of time, he associated 
with and painted the portraits of practically all the outstanding | 
men and women who have so materially assisted in shaping the 
destiny of this great Commonwealth of Kentucky. 


When Jouett was born on April 22, 1788, Kentucky was under 
the tutelage of her parent State, Virginia. The Indian was 
still on the war-path, and the lives of those who settled beyond 
The Wzlderness were no less romantic than the clothes they 
wore. Jouett’s father, Captain John, had been presented with a 
sword and a pair of pistols by his grateful State of Virginia for 
his valuable services during the Revolutionary War. Matt 
in his turn served in the War of 1812, and was present at the 
Battle of the River Raisin. He came through an unpleasant 
ordeal only to prove that the paint-brush is mightier than the 
pistol. 


After leaving Transylvania University, he studied law under 
the Honorable George M. Bibb, of the Court of Appeals at Frank- 
fort. In spite of his decided talent for the Bar, which was ad- 
mirably fostered by his able mentor, his flair for analyzing the 
character of his clients on canvas made him dissatisfied with 
his disputations in the Court Room. In 1817, therefore, he 


_ decided to take horse for the studio of Benjamin West in Phila- 


delphia. West was in Europe, so Jouett was advised to ride 
on to Boston, the home of Gilbert Stuart. He studied with 
Stuart for about four months and at the end of that time had 
so captured his admiration and affection that he gave him all 
the secrets of his own technique. Jouett put this knowledge to 
such good use that when he wanted to paint /u the Stuart man- 
ner, the canvases of the two artists could scarcely be differentiated. 


Notwithstanding this, Jouett has his own individual style 
and his own best manner is as masterly and at the same time 
more subtle than much of the work of his contemporaries. 


During the short years of his activity as an artist he influenced 
the work of a very attractive young man, John Grimes, who, 
had he lived, would have contested /ouett’s mantle with Oliver 
Frazer, the one destined so gloriously to carry on the Jouett 
tradition. 


Kentucky did not realize the depth of her mourning when 
Matthew Harris Jouett left the personality of his genius behind 
in his portraits on August 10th, 1827. 


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7 Jefferson. . . 


kk Bibb . . 


Robert Alexander . 


_ (Grandfather of owner) 


ae R. Alexander 


Rev. Isaac. McCoy . 
% (Great grandfather of owner) 


_ (After Gilbert ovary | 


The Honorable George Bibb 
_ (Chief Justice of Kentucky 

_ and U.S. Senator for 6 years 
aioe March 4, 1829) 


er John G. McKinney Mr. Walter Ehrich 


“Portrdits_~ 
ee by eae 
Matthew Harris fouett 
QS 


Courtesy of 


Dr. A. J. A. Alexander : 
Woodford Co., Ky. 


Dr. A. J. A. Alexander 
Woodford Co., Ky. 


Dr. A. J. A. Alexander 
Woodford Co., Ky. 


Dr. A. J. A. Alexander 
Woodford Co., Ky. 


Dr. A. J. A. Alexander 
Woodford Co., Ky. 


Mrs. A. J. A. Alexander 
Woodford Co., Ky. 


Mr. Desha Breckinridge 
Lexington, Ky. 


Mr. and Mrs. Harry Crittenden 
Frankfort, Ky. 


Mr. and Mrs. Harry Crittenden 
Frankfort, Ky. 


Mr: and Mrs. Harry Crittenden 
Frankfort, Ky. 


Miss Josephine Carter 
Versailles, Ky. 


Mr. John Churchill 
Louisville, Ky. 


Mr. Walter Ehrich 
Ehrich Galleries, N. Y. 


S, 4 James G. McKinney . Mr. Walter Ehrich 


Ehrich Galleries, N. Y. 


Ehrich Galleries, N. Y. 


Portraits by Matthew Garris Jouett * 
{Continued} es 


16 Cuthbert Bullite anti. te 
(Merchant) | 


17 Margaret Howard Wickliffe 
18 Squire Warfield ..... 


19 Daughter of Dr. 
Horace Holley ..... 
(Attributed) 


20 Self Portrait of 
Matthew Harris Jouett .~ 


21 Mrs. Matthew Harris Jouett 


(nee Margaret Allen of 
Fayette Co., Ky.) 


22 Judge John McKinley . 3 


23 Mr. Justice Thomas Todd 


(Chief Justice of the Court 
of Appeals of Kentucky, 
subsequently associate Jus- . 
tice of the eee Court 
of the United States) 


24¥Judge Harry Innes . hee 
(Commissioned by “‘ Wash- 
ington’? — United States 
Judge for the District of 
Kentucky) 


25° Mrs. Harry lanes 3440. 


26 Mrs. John J. Crittenden . 
(nee Maria Knox Innes, 
Daughter of Judge Harry 
Innes and 2nd wife of John 
J. Crittenden, also daughter- 


in-law of Justice Thos. Todd) a ee 
Mr. and Mrs. James R 


27 Mrs. Jouett & Child. i... 


28 Colonel James Masterson . | 


(Indian Fighter) 


Mrs. Joseph M. Roger an 


Mr. and Mrs. James | 


Courtesy of 
Mr. Hugh K, Bullitt 


Cincinnatt Museum / 


Pee 
4, 


Judge Alexander P.M 


Mr. George Todd 
Mr. George Todd | 


Mr. George Todd - 


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3 care Sart ta eee 
‘a ‘ie of Matthew Harris Jouett) 


ns oe up the great N ai 
__west and stopped the Indian 
_ depredations) 


a (Founder of Morrison Hall, 
Transylvania University) 


(President of Transylvania 
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(“No North, No South, No 
ae No West, Nothing But 


wrence Leavy .... 


ernor James McDowell 
f Virginia) 


aits by Matthew Garris Fouett 
{@ontinued]} 


Courtesy of 


Mr. and Mrs. James Ross Todd 
Louisnile, Ky 


Mr. ae Mrs. James Ross Todd 
Louisville, Ky. 


Mr. and Mrs. James Ross Todd 
Louiswlle, Ky. 


Mr. and Mrs. James Ross Todd 
Louisville, Ky, 
Mrs. . J ames Ross Todd 
Louisuille, Ky. 


Falson. Club bai, 
Louisville, Ky. 


Transylvania University. 
Lexington, Ky. 


Transylvania U niversity — 
Lexi ngton, as 


Transylvania University 
Lexington, Ky. 


Transylvamia U niversity 
meme ane Ky. 


Transylvania University 
Lexington, Ky. 


Mr. T. W. Rainey 
Lexington, Ky. 


Mrs. J]. R. Morton 
Lexington, Ky. 


Mrs. J. R. Morton 
Lexington, Ky. 


Mr.and Mrs. William Preston 
Lexington, Ky. 


“Portraits by eMatthew Harris Fouett 
{Continued} 


44 Mrs. James McDowell . 


45 Colonel Edmund Taylor, Sr. 


44, Honorable Isham Talbot . 


WY (U. S. Senator from 
Kentucky) 


47 Honorable John Brown. 


(First U. S. Senator from 


Kentucky) 


48 Governor Isaac Shelby . 


(First Governor of Kentucky) 


49 John G. Chiles 


(Attributed.) (Owner of The 


Phoenix, Lexington.) 


50 Honorable James Johnson 


(Member of Congress, 
Brother of Richard M. 
Johnson; Vice President 


of the United States under 


Van Buren) 


51 Catherine Cornelia Prather 


52 Mrs. Somers 


(Wife of Jouett’s physician) 


53 Samuel Vance. 


(of Aberdeen, Virginia. 
Grandfather of Dr. Ap. 
Morgan Vance) 


54 Mrs.Matthew Harris Jouett 


55 The Jouett Home . 


56 Joseph Hamilton Daviess . 
(Prosecutor of{Aaron Burr) 


57 Blue Boy . 
(Attributed) 


Courtesy of 


Mr. and Mrs. Preston Johnston 
Lexington, Ky. 


Mrs. John S. Cannon 
Frankfort, Ky. 


Mrs. Mary Talbot Rodman 
Frankfort, Ky. 


Mr. Mason P. Brown 
Frankfort, Ky. 


Mrs. Edmund Shelby Kinkead 
Lexington, Ky. 


Miss Ophelia Chiles 
Lexington, Ky. 


Mr. and Mrs. Henry Offutt 
Frankfort, Ky. 


Mrs. Lewis Humphrey 
Louisville, Ky. 


Mrs. Lewis Humphrey 
Louisville, Ky. 


Mrs. Ap. Morgan Vance 
Louisville, Ky. * 


Mr. Richard H. Menefee 
Louisville, Ky. 


Mr. Richard H. Menefee 
Louisville, Ky. 


Mr. J. T. Menefee 
Louisville, Ky. 


Mrs. J. C. Turner 
‘Lexington, Ky. 


ae Portraits by eMatthew Garris Fouett 
; be {Continued} 


Courtesy of 


58 Peter Grayson, Poet . . . Mr.and Mrs. William Wymond 
ee Louisville, Ky. 


59 Capt. Robinson de Hart . Mrs. J. B. Speed 
Louisville, Ky. 


60 Thomas Prather. .. . . Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Minnigerode 


Louisville, Ky. 
61 William Prather. . . . . Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Minnigerode 
(His Son) Louisville, Ky. 


62 James Moore... ... Mrs. J. W. Moore 
re (First President of Transyl- 
vania University) 


63 Elizabeth Jouett .... Mr. Matt H. Crawford 
(Sister of the Artist) Louisville, Ky. 


Louisville, Ky. 


“@ashington” ‘Portraits 

ATTRIBUTED TO GILBERT STUART 

64 George Washington . . . Filson Club 

Louisville, Ky. 
65 George Washington ... Mrs. George Bayless . 
Simpsonville, Ky. 


- 66 George Washington ... Mr. George Todd ; 
os New Albany, Ind. 


ae “Portraits by Gilbert Stuart 
ee _ 67 Wilson Cary Nicholas . . Mr.and Mrs. Leonard Hewett 


(Governor of Virginia) Louisville, Ky. 
68 Governor Desha. . . . . Mr. Desha Breckinridge 
7 (Attributed) Lexington, Ky. 


“Portraits by Oliver Grazer 


69 Jouett Menefee ..... Mrs. James Ross Todd 
mt) Louisville, Ky. 
70 Col. Wm. R. McKee . . Miss Alice Lafon Jones 
iz and Louisville, Ky. 
71 Mrs. Samuel McKee . . Mrs. T. Hoyt Gamble 
om 8, Louisville, Ky. 


“Portraits by John Grimes 


72 Mrs. Washington Barrow . 


73 James Ware Parrish . 
(Attributed) 


74 Orlando Payne 


(Attributed. ) (Endeared 


himself to the people of 
Lexington during the chol- 
era epidemic of 1833.) 


Courtesy of 
Mrs. Thomas Clay 
Lexington, Ky. 
Lt.-Col. A. N. S. Strode- Jackson 
Louisville, Ky. 


Miss Ophelia Chiles 
Lexington, Ky. 


eMiniatures by Fouett and ‘Photographs of 
“Portraits not Exhibited 


(On display in case) 


Mrs. John Harris Todd 


(Miniature) (Daughter-in- 
law of Chief Justice Todd, 
subsequently Mrs. John J. 
Crittenden, appears on the 
Crittenden Bank note) 


General Postlewaite . 
(Miniature) 


Dr. Samuel Brown 


(Younger brother of John 
Brawn, first to use vaccine 
in the West) 


Honorable James Brown . 


(First Secretary of State of 
Kentucky, First U. S. Sen- 
ator from Louisiana, Min- 
ister to France when the 
Monroe Doctrine was trans- 
mitted by his hands to the 
French Government) 


Preston Watts Brown 


Rev. John M. Mason 
(Stuart) 


James G. McKinney . 


The Edgehill Portrait of 
Jefferson . : 
(Stuart) 


Mrs. John R. Walliams 
Louisville, Ky. 


Mr. and Mrs. Emile Pragoff 
Louisville, Ky. 


Miss Mary Mason Scott 
“‘ Liberty Hall,” Frankfort, Ky. 


Miss Mary Mason Scoti 
“Liberty Hall,” Frankfort, Ky. 


Miss Mary Mason Scott 
“Liberty Hall," Frankfort, Ky. 


Miss Mary Mason Scott 
“‘ Liberty Hall,’’ Frankfort, Ky. 


Cleveland Museum of Art 


Mrs. W. H. Martin 
Midway, Ky. 


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eMiniatures by Fouett and ‘Photographs of 
“Portraits not Exhibited 


Dolly Madison 
(Stuart) 


Mr. Justice Thomas Todd . 


Mrs. Thomas Todd 


(nee Lucy Payne, sister 
of Dolly Madison) 


Col. Charles Stuart Todd. . 


(Minister to Russia) 


The Crittenden Bank Note . 


($5.00) 


The Crittenden Bank Note 
($20.00) 


The Crittenden Bank Note 
(#50.00) 


The Crittenden Cup 


{Continued} 


Courtesy of 
Mrs. W. H. Martin 
Midway, Ky. 


Mr. and Mrs. Hardin Ward 
Loutsville, Ky. 


Mr. and Mrs. Hardin Ward 
Louisville, Ky. 


Mr. and Mrs. Hardin Ward 


Louisville, Ky. 


Mrs. John R. Williams 
Louisville, Ky. 


Mrs. W. H. Martin 
Midway, Ky. 
Mrs. Theodore O’Hara Samuels 
Louisville, Ky. 


Mrs. Theodore O’Hara Samuels 
Louisuile, Ky. 


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